Tim Pool (128:33)
The one one of my friends asked me today, we were sitting down and this was still in the midst of not knowing what had happened to Charlie. And I wanted everything just to believe that he was okay. And I got sent one of the videos and within looking at the first frame, I threw my phone and started crying because I knew, even though I didn't want to believe it, I didn't, I didn't know for sure. But I mean, you knew. And my friend said this could lead to civil war. And this is not a political dude, this is a skateboarder. He doesn't know anything about politics at all. And I said, bro, this is exactly what war looks like. It's not like maybe it might happen. The question now is with the left's response about escalation, if they, if they actually start taking up on it. My other fear is that people on the right might escalate as well. But people seem to think war is like a bunch of troops marching towards each other. They've never watched a video from Syria during the civil War. Two guys in one building in a residential neighborhood, nothing else. And then a bunch of people get shot and they're dead. That's what war looks like. It looks like a car pulls in and a bunch of guys with guns jump out. And it's a shopping district and you're just buying some, some melons, and you look around, they run in, start grabbing a bunch of stuff, throwing it in the truck. They shoot a bunch of people, get in their truck and leave. That's what civil war looks like. Yeah. The American Civil War was several sovereign states and a union that had fractured. And these sovereign states had standing armies. Civil war around the world is not like that. There is no unified standing army. Factions break apart. In Syria, for instance, there was something like 12 factions at the start of the civil war. But we look to America and we think civil war is going to be one side, another side linking up and then going to war. No, that's just war. And that's, that's, that's archaic. What we are more likely to see in this country is factional. There's going to be different sects of leftism. There's going to be different sects of right wing conservative groups and moderate groups. There's different cultures. And if civil war were to happen, what it looked like for you, most, most of you, nothing will change except for what you hear on the news. You'll go to work, prices will go up. You'll go grocery shopping and you'll be like, well, I guess I'm not buying avocado anymore. Why? You'll hear on the news that certain roads, freeways from the south had been bombed. And you'll be like, yeah, the trucks can't get through, but your grains and your stable products that are manufactured in your region probably will still be there, but the prices will go up a little bit. That's what civil war will look like for people in big cities. A lot of these cities probably won't see a thing. It's. When I have this conversation with people, it's interesting because they believe I hear this all the time. Like when I went on the trigonometry podcast, they said, I go outside, nothing's happening. There's a civil war. And my question is always, do you think that In Atlanta in 1863, a guy walked out of his house and his neighbor looked at him and said, oh, I'm gonna fight you? No. They were neighbors. They lived in the same city. They believed the same things. DC's 80%, 90% Democrat. No one there is Arguing with each other. But these people in other areas do. The question becomes, in these cities, what will we likely see? Insurgency. Meaning why would an antifa group in Portland shoot and kill other antifa? They're not going to do it. When the far left took over the Capitol Hill autonomous zone, they called it, a handful of people died because they were paranoid and panicked and shot them up. But all in all, what did they do? They got a bunch of guns, surrounded this area, took over buildings and told people they couldn't come in. Now, if you were a white right wing group with mega hats on and you approached them, they'd shoot and kill you. Why do I think that? How do I know that? Because some kids were in a vehicle, they were joyriding teenagers. Someone spread a rumor that they were white supremacists. So the armed Chaz guards unloaded on them and killed them without investigating, without knowing. That's what they do. That's what civil war looks like. Now, here's the thing. At the time, people said, yeah, Tim, but it happened. And there was no civil war. Indeed, periods of civil strife don't always lead to civil war. The next step in civil strife becomes civil war. The civil rights era of the United States was a civil strife period. It did not lead to civil war. What we are dealing with right now may just be civil strife. We don't know. But based on what the left is saying, we have two major considerations. The deployment of the National Guard and military ICE raids across the country. That is federal, military and law enforcement action to a greater degree than seen in the past 10, 20 years. The assassination of Charlie Kirk and the rhetoric on the left calling for more within the same day. If the left decides to take action and we start seeing these armed groups like Chess Chop pop up and they say it's time to fight back against ice, the only question then becomes when? We collectively just think, yeah, maybe it's a civil war.
